Image·Team Youngblood·#15·Modern Age·ID-5509992
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Eric Stephenson
Todd Nauck
Danny Miki
Nathan Lumm
Eric Stephenson
Creator-owned publisher. Home of Spawn, The Walking Dead, Invincible.
Variant cover era. Trade paperback culture. Independent movement flourishes. Digital distribution begins.
Census-registered copies anchor pricing. First appearances of characters adapted to screen drive the market.
Modern Age (1992–present) — foil cover era, variant proliferation, and the independent movement. Strong narrative significance drives key issue demand. Census-registered copies anchor pricing.
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The recovery of third-party encapsulation and grading expenditures when an asset is acquired at a discount below the physical cost of replacement grading fees, shipping, and insurance.
Youngblood lands at Andrews Air Force Base with the captive New Men. As they disembark, they discuss their misgivings about fighting and arresting their young allies. Sentinel extends his sympathy to Riptide for her firing but criticizes her decision to pose nude. She asserts her right to make her own choices and storms off. Higgins, the Brotherhood of Man’s mole in Keever’s office, reports to his commander but is cut off and knocked out by Pilot. Accompanying him are Dash, Khyber, and Proctor; they have snuck into Youngblood headquarters to rescue the New Men. They find Keever arguing with Reign over the team’s arrest and need for government supervision. Proctor declares that he oversees the New Men and leads them out of the building. Youngblood is waiting for them, and Khyber fires an energy blast in haste, triggering a battle. The two teams fight until Keever comes running and reveals that the New Men were set up by the Brotherhood of Man. Exposed as a mole, Higgins confessed everything. A guard takes Keever hostage, revealing himself as another Brotherhood member, but spontaneously combusts before he can cause any harm. Later, Keever offers to make Proctor the New Men’s official government liaison. Sentinel tells Riptide he will try to get her reinstated, but she says she is glad to leave. Suddenly, Dash goes into labor. At the Brotherhood of Man’s headquarters, its leader rages at the failure of his plot against the New Men.
Each cover variant, retailer incentive, and subsequent printing represents an independent atomic tradeable instrument with unique supply elasticity, barcode registration, and secondary market demand.
Strict algorithmic segregation separating clean single-issue Cover A sales from multi-issue lot bundles, retailer exclusives, and foreign variants.